Senior Software Engineer - Global Traffic Infrastructure

Senior Software Engineer - Global Traffic Infrastructure

Location:

San Jose

Team:
Technology

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: A166080

About the Team The Global Traffic Infrastructure (GTI) team leverages unified platform capabilities to manage global edge infrastructure (both self-built and third-party) providing standardized, compliant, scalable, and cost-effective traffic infrastructure capabilities for edge services. Our vision is to build a global edge traffic infrastructure platform and become the long-term cornerstone of Byte Dance's global edge business in terms of scale, performance, and cost.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build and operate infra components for global edge PoPs (e.g., Kubernetes/control plane, Virtualization/Container, Ingress/Gateway), with a focus on performance, reliability and security.
• Drive end-to-end delivery of cloud-native features from requirements, architecture, implementation and testing to production rollout, troubleshooting and continuous optimization.
• Build observability and troubleshooting capabilities for cloud-native based components (metrics/logs/tracing/profiling), and improve incident response efficiency through automation.
• Collaborate with SRE, platform, and product teams to provide standardized features and reusable platform capabilities for traffic-intensive services.

Minimum Qualification(s): BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience. Strong software engineering fundamentals and solid backend/system development experience in one or more languages such as Go/C/C++/Rust. Hands-on production experience with containers and Kubernetes (cluster operations, networking, service discovery, Ingress/Gateway, rollout strategies). Solid understanding and practical experience with cloud-native stack, container/virtualization and network. Strong problem-solving skills, ownership, and ability to work effectively in cross-functional, fast-paced environments.

Preferred Qualification(s):
Experience with or contributions to cloud-native open-source projects (e.g., Kubernetes, Containerd, Cilium/eBPF). Strong Linux knowledge (kernel, scheduling,TCP/IP, routing, iptables/nftables) and production troubleshooting experience. Experience designing multi-tenant isolation, network security controls, and reliability mechanisms for high-traffic systems. Familiar with CDN, Livestream, RTC or other edge traffic production architecture.

Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $156000 - $387600 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external…